Meaning of BASENESS
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| | Definition: | | [n] unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values |
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| | Synonyms: | | contemptibility, despicability, despicableness |
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| | See Also: | | unworthiness | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Base"ness\, n.
The quality or condition of being base; degradation;
vileness.
I once did hold it a baseness to write fair. --Shak.
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| | Related Terms: | | abjectness, abominability, abominableness, arrantness, atrociousness, awfulness, badness, beastliness, beggarliness, bestiality, brutality, chicanery, coarseness, commonness, commonplaceness, contemptibility, contemptibleness, contrariety, cravenness, crudeness, crumminess, dastardliness, debasement, deficiency, degradation, depravity, desertion under fire, despicability, despicableness, detestableness, devilishness, devilry, deviltry, direness, disgustingness, dreadfulness, egregiousness, enormity, evilness, execrableness, failure, fewness, fiendishness, filth, flagitiousness, foulness, fourth-rateness, fulsomeness, grossness, harshness, hatefulness, heinousness, hellishness, helotism, helotry, homeliness, horribleness, humbleness, ignobility, imperfection, inadequacy, incompetence, infamousness, inferiority, inferiorness, iniquitousness, insufficiency, knavery, knavishness, littleness, loathsomeness, lousiness, lowliness, lowness, maladroitness, meanness, mediocrity, menialness, miserableness, monstrousness, moral turpitude, nastiness, naughtiness, nauseousness, nefariousness, noisomeness, notoriousness, noxiousness, objectionability, objectionableness, obnoxiousness, obscenity, odiousness, offensiveness, ordinariness, outrageousness, paltriness, peonage, pettiness, plebeianism, pokiness, poltroonery, poltroonishness, poltroonism, poorness, pusillanimity, pusillanimousness, putridity, putridness, rankness, rascality, rascalry, rebarbativeness, repellence, repellency, reprobacy, repugnance, repulsiveness, roguery, roguishness, rottenness, scabbiness, scampishness, scandalousness, scoundrelism, scrubbiness, scruffiness, scumminess, scurviness, second-rateness, serfdom, servility, shabbiness, shamefulness, shoddiness, sinfulness, skedaddling, slavery, slavishness, smallness, sordidness, squalidness, squalor, submissiveness, subnormality, subservience, subserviency, terribleness, the pits, third-rateness, triviality, turpitude, uncleanness, unskillfulness, unspeakableness, viciousness, vileness, villainousness, villainy, vulgarity, wickedness, worthlessness, wretchedness |
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